How to turn off tooltips?

Hi Jens,

There is no built in way of turning off the tooltips in Safari as far as I know.

You can though turn them off and on by running a terminal command if you feel comfortable doing so.

To do this:

To turn off the tooltips, users should open the Terminal application and enter the following command:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitShowsURLsInToolTips 0

To reverse this command, enter it again with a "1" at the end instead of the "0"

This is from a MacFixit fixit found at:

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10329800-263.html

I believe that third party utilities such as Cocktail or TinkerTool also have the capability of turning off tooltips which you might prefer if not comfortable working with terminal app.

hope that helps some,

LS 🙂

Hi again jens,

I would suggest if you are not familiar using terminal.app to download one of third party utilities such as tinkertool or cocktail and let the utility run the command for you. Much safer than trying to use Terminal if you are not familiar with it. You would copy and paste the command exactly as above into terminal at the prompt and then hit return. I believe it does not take effect until you restart Safari though. Just make sure you familiarize yourself with using Terminal.app if you have not used it before!

LS 🙂

Hi again Jens,

That's great!

Glad I could help and thank-you for taking the time to award helpful/solved stars in Apple Discussions 🙂

littleshoulders

Hi,

Terminate the tooltips









Carolyn 🙂